President Reed Is Cool As A Cucumber

I received the following email from D-League PR, on behalf of President dan Reed.

“On behalf of the NBA Development League, I apologize to our fans for a Utah Flash promotion that never should have happened. This promotion was clearly ill-conceived. Brandt Andersen, the Utah Flash owner, has apologized to the Flash fans and has reached out to Michael Jordan to apologize to him as well.

The Flash will refund the price of the tickets and has also offered free tickets to an upcoming Flash game to everyone who was in attendance at Monday night’s game.”

I love the fact that President Reed jumped on this as soon as he did. We’re not 24 hours later and coming out and admitting it was a bad move is huge. It’s the D-League. There are going to be mistakes. But being willing to take responsibility for those mistakes is the sign of capable leadership.

Paroxysm Approved.

PS: I wish I could deliver statements like this to relevant parties.

“On behalf of myself, I want to apologize to my wife for not taking the dog out before it decided to pee in our living room.  I had just started a new game of NBA Live and my roster was ill-conceived. Tyrus Thomas has apologized to me, and has reached out to the rest of his team for his jumper.

I will totally take her out next time, as long as it’s not the playoffs. Because, I mean, come on. It’s Tyrus Thomas in the playoffs.”